No role for CfT and Kingdom Government in St. Maarten
When the Netherlands joined the United Nations in 1945, it committed itself to two fundamental obligations as far as St. Maarten is concerned. The first was to fulfill in good faith its obligations under the United Nations ( present ) Charter and the second was to ensure a full measure of self-government for St. Maarten.
The idea behind the Full Measure of Self-Government was to ensure that European colonial powers no longer exercised control over colonized peoples. The United States and Russia had just defeated Nazism in Europe. Just as the United States and Russia had helped to free Europe from Nazi domination, both nations were demanding that European colonial states free their colonial peoples from foreign domination. That was the basis behind the concept of a Full Measure of Self-Government or decolonization if you will. The Netherlands signed onto the UN Charter and ratified it. Therefore, it is bound t